Definition of "wool-combing" [wool-combing]

• The act or process of separating the fibers of wool, especially long-fibered wool, and laying them parallel as in wool-carding. See comb and combing. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Mr. Jowett wants the Home Secretary to withdraw the permission he gave some time ago "to employ women on the night-turn in wool-combing.""
• "These inventions were the spinning jenny, the steam engine, the power loom, the wool-combing machine, and the cotton gin."
• "A carding cylinder had been invented by Paul as far back as 1748, and now came into general use, while several wool-combing machines were invented in 1792 and 1793."